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Minor earthquake, 3.68 mag strikes near Miches in Dominican Republic

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A minor earthquake magnitude 3.68 (ml/mb) has struck on Tuesday, 20 kilometers (12 miles) from Miches in Dominican Republic. Unique identifier: pr2025294001. Ids that are associated to the event: pr2025294001. Exact time and date of earthquake 21/10/25 / 2025-10-21 13:10:31 / October 21, 2025 @ 1:10 pm UTC/GMT. The temblor was reported at 13:10:31 / 1:10 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude -68.8531° West, latitude 18.9935° North, depth = 7 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 7 km (4 miles).

Close country/countries, Dominican Republic (c. 9 824 000 pop) (That might be effected). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Bayaguana, Sánchez, Las Terrenas. Epicenter of the earthquake was 75 km (47 miles) from San Pedro de Macorís (c. 217 900 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from La Romana (c. 208 400 pop), 45 km (28 miles) from Salvaleón de Higüey (c. 123 800 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Punta Cana (c. 100 000 pop), 50 km (31 miles) from Hato Mayor del Rey (c. 36 000 pop), 32 km (20 miles) from Santa Cruz de El Seibo (c. 23 500 pop).

There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days nine, in the past 30 days twenty and in the last 365 days two hundred and sixty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 20 km E of Miches, Dominican Republic.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.68 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-68.8531° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	18.9935° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	7 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	20 km E of Miches, Dominican Republic	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2025-10-21 13:10:31	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-10-21 14:52:26	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset		Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt		The total number of felt reports
CDI		The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI		The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level		The alert level from the PAGER earthquake impact scale. Green, Yellow, Orange or Red.
Review Status	reviewed	Indicates whether the event has been reviewed by a human.
Tsunami	0	This flag is set to "1" for large events in oceanic regions and "0" otherwise. The existence or value of this flag does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist.
SIG	208	A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network	pr	The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources	,pr,	A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used	20	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.4473	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.86 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	148	The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type	md	The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type	earthquake	Type of seismic event.
Event ID	pr2025294001	Id of event.
Event Code	2025294001	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,pr2025294001,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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